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Course:

ENGL 4/537 -- 19th CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL
Instructor: Manuela Mourao

Librarian:  

Karen Vaughan, kvaughan@odu.edu, 757-683-4184

Off-Campus Access:

When you select an electronic resource (database, journal, etc.) from off campus, you will be prompted to enter your student ID number. Use your 8 digit University ID Number (UIN). After entering the number, you will see two security screens. Click "yes" to proceed through them on to your chosen resource. For more detailed instructions, click here .

Key Resources:

* FOR BACKGROUND INFORMATION

• Consult Reference Materials:   Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Manuals, Handbooks, etc
  • Call Number Category: P - Language and Literature (PN: General; PR: British Literature)
• Use OED online; use literary dictionaries on the Web
• Use other electronic general reference materials from the Library's General Reference Sources page
• Use Literature Resource Center for fulltext essays from various reference sources

* FOR BOOKS+

• Use ODU Library Catalog for books, journals, microfilms, and government documents owned/ subscribed to by ODU library
• Use WorldCat for millions of records of all types of materials worldwide including archival materials. Indicates which libraries own the materials.
• Use Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue (NSTC) available through C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
• Use Literature Resource Center for some fulltext secondary source materials (Twayne)
• Use Dissertations and Theses Fulltext with more than 600,00 fulltext from 1996; indexing back to 1861.
• Use Other Library Catalogs (Virginia Tidewater Consortium) for area libraries
• Use Interlibrary Loan to obtain materials we don't own

* FOR ARTICLES+

• Use DATABASES (subject "Literature"):
  • MLA Bibliography  (languages & literature; some full text; includes MLA Directory of Periodicals)
  • Literature Resource Center (full text articles under tab "Literary Criticism, Articles...")
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index (citations only; includes cited references)
  • Academic Onefile  (all subjects -- selected full-text)
• Use JOURNAL COLLECTIONS:
  • JSTOR Fulltext database of older scholarly journal articles, many dating back to the 1880's.
  • Project Muse Fulltext database of scholarly journals 1995 to present.

- Consult Journals, Magazines, Newspapers by title for ODU journal availability -- print and electronic
- Consult Other Library Catalogs for journals locally
- Use WorldCat to identify journal availability throughout the world
- Use Interlibrary Loan to obtain journal articles we don't own
- Use MLA Directory (select advanced option in MLA), UlrichsWeb or Magazines for Libraries (at ref desk) for journal info

* FOR PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS

• See Books+ above
• Use Full Text Collections available on the Web
• Use C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (includes the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, Palmer's Index to the Times, and Periodicals Index Online)
• Use Microform Collections
• Use various 19th century periodicals

--> For more literature resources , click here for "Resources by Subject: Literature"

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Other Information:

MLA Citation Style and other citation styles are available on the General Reference Sources page under "Style Manuals & Writing Guides"